Audacity 4.0

dbcooper

Release video looking at the new UI (Qt6 based): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTQymidLYIM

AbuAssar

in the age of 500MB apps (thanks to electron); it is refreshing to see a sub-50MB app again.

pluc

Audacity and Avidemux have allowed me to look much more skilled in media editing than I have any right to claim

ancientstraits

I have been using Audacity 3 for making music with samples for a few years. And it sort of worked, but there were a lot of things that were inconvenient, like the project sometimes not saving, or getting a "clicking" noise across clips that I had to remove by manually fading in/out each end of the clip. I tried the Audacity 4 beta a while ago, and it seemed super clean and like it fixed a lot of stuff. I am pretty concerned about the encroaching audio.com things (even though they are completely optional), but I still think this Audacity version has promise. I especially like how you can drag clips to time-stretch them.

ramon156

Love what Audacity has become, especially the new UI that does not look like it was forced through some scrum pipeline

a1o

Looks great. I remember a company sort of bought it but afaict they didn’t monetize it. I don’t remember the strategy, or why it was acquired, does anyone recall it?

Lautzi

I highly recommend this video [1] by the Head of Software at Muse who had a big part in the development of Audacity 4.0. Some great insights and really fun to watch! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G38

SMAAART

I am sure that Suno would love to buy Audacity.

GaryBluto

Very disappointed to see a program I remembered fondly for its native-feeling interface and functional, wholegrain feeling turned into whatever this is. It’s akin to a nutrient-rich home cooked meal being replaced with McDonald’s. I should’ve known it was doomed from the moment I saw an advertisement for their Discord chat room in the readme.

drcongo

Finally looks great!

Sophira

How's the telemetry situation nowadays? I haven't been updating my copy for a while.

luckilydiscrete

Whoa what a glow up!

sapiogram

I hope app startup times have been improved, at some this regressed massively, from 0.5s to like 2s.

apercu

I used Audacity decades ago (2006-2010) but when I stopped buying PCs I always found there was noise on a Mac so I switched to logic. I always thought audacity was great, and still prefer its workflow to slow tools or logic. I haven’t ever tried Reaper however.

wconrm

Love to see a winamp-era software evolving to this beauty. Enveloppes and UI colors looks like ableton in a good way.

oidar

>> The following Audacity 3 features are not available in Audacity 4.0, but we're working on adding them in future releases. Time Tracks Note/MIDI tracks Mixer Macro Manager and the scripting pipe VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting Play-at-speed Sync-Lock and the old tool modes were replaced by the workflows described above. >>Additionally, Audacity 4 ships with some missing exporting and rendering features, analyzers, and effects.

thinkingtoilet

If anyone here has contributed to Audacity I just want to say thank you. I'm not a power user. I'm not in audio. However, over the years I have installed Audacity to do some audio things here and there. It has always been so useful.

basisword

It's been many years since I used Audacity but the interface looks vastly improved.

_def

Hopefully there will be a selfhostable implementation of their cloud counterpart someday? Maybe only a weekend of vibecoding away.

emursebrian

The new editing features will be pretty useful for sound design.